just did apt-get mesag-dev. still the same thing:

Now Making glut extend module
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/installs/opengl'
gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -fPIC  -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-linux -I.
-I/usr/include    -I/usr/X11R6/include -c -o glut.o glut.c
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/installs/opengl'
glut.c:8: GL/glut.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [glut.o] Error 1
make: *** [glut.so] Error 2

~transami


On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 12:01, Dossy wrote:
> On 2002.07.12, Tom Sawyer <transami / transami.net> wrote:
> > can any one give me some help installing the opengl interface library? i
> > downloaded it and ran the extconf.rb script which created the makefile,
> > i think next i type make? but it complains that it can't find GL/glut.h.
> > i'm running debian, and i did apt-get install mesag3 and apt-get source
> > mesag3 already, as i thought i would need to. help?
> 
> Do you have mesag-dev installed?  "-dev" packages in Debian typically
> contain the files required for doing development, such as header files
> and such.
> 
> -- Dossy
> 
> -- 
> Dossy Shiobara                       mail: dossy / panoptic.com 
> Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/ 
>   "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>     folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
> 
-- 
~transami

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